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. 2018 Jul 10;12:51. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2018.00051

Table 6.

Findings related to sensory modulation by DA.

Structure Species and anesthesia (if applicable) Significance Reference
V1 Remifentanil anesthetized rhesus monkey Systemic administration of L-DOPA increases supragranular oscillatory activity encoding visual information, but failure to induce changes in neuronal activity by local DA application Zaldivar et al., 2018, 2014
dLGN Urethane anesthetized rat and ketamine or halothane anesthetized cat D1 receptors inhibit and D2 receptors excite extracellularly recorded relay neurons Phillis et al., 1967; Albrecht et al., 1996; Zhao et al., 2002
dLGN Rat and mouse (brain slices) D1 receptors depolarize and D2 receptors inhibit intracellularly recorded neurons Govindaiah and Cox, 2005; Munsch et al., 2005
A1 Awake gerbil D1 receptors modulate auditory discrimination learning Schicknick et al., 2012; Happel et al., 2014
MGN Mouse (brain slices) D2 receptors modulate synaptic transmission at thalamocortical afferents in A1 Chun et al., 2014
Inferior colliculus Awake mouse Dopamine inhibits neuronal activity Gittelman et al., 2013
S1 Awake rat Dopamine inhibits neuronal activity Bassant et al., 1990
Ventrobasal thalamus Rat (brain slices) Dopamine increases excitability of intracellularly recorded neurons Govindaiah et al., 2010a